2008-12-26

AWB RecordingPeter Sotos is a former member of the noise/power electronics masters Whitehouse (you can get some vids of their last live show here). He's also a good writer, in the same vein of Denis Cooper : a man who likes children and teenagers, always in an happy mood, living in a fairy tale world.This solo record was produced by the great Steve Albini. Enjoy !Buyer's market (megaupload)

2008-12-25

Celluloid/Acute recordsMétal Urbain was probably the best french punk band. In 1979, after the split, front members Eric Débris and Charlie H released Tokio Airport under the moniker Metal Boys.Thanks to tastes-like-rocknroll.blogspot.com (also the pw if you need)

2008-12-23

"Written for 400 guitars and performed live in the basilica of landmark Sacré-Coeur - with 10,000 people watching and 100,000 more on national TV. As the music shimmers, it offers a snapshot of eternity, an echo of a moment a thousand years gone - and a thousand years yet to come." (Rhys Chatham website)I saw Rhys Chatham performing twice : first the amazing An Angel Moves Too Fast To See (For 100 Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, And Drums) in the Art Center "Lieu Unique" in Nantes ; then the mesmerizing Guitar Trio in the independant festival SOY (http://alicerabbit.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html).

2008-12-21

Mille Plateaux MP 009 CD Oval was one of my first experience with "Mille Plateaux's electronica. It was at the time so exciting and new ! Systemisch and 94diskont was two releases I used to listen to very regularly. Oval was Markus Popp, Sebastian Oschatz and Frank Metzger in Darmstadt, Germany in 1991. After "94 Diskont" (1996) they splitted and Oval become the solo project of Markus Popp.systemisch94diskont

2008-12-12

Manoel de Oliveira is the oldest active film director in the world and one of the most aventurous. He's the only alive director to have shoot at the time of the silents films. He's the best and prolific portuguese film-maker and one of the best of the world. And he's the most underrated film-maker in his own country ! Cabrões de portugueses do caralho.And he celebrates today his 100th birthday !More about the Maestro here (wikipedia) or here (the Guardian)

2008-12-10

Klanggalerie / ICR - gg104 / ICR 50 CD-R in a limited edition of only 200 copies - released IN 2005 by ICR (Colin Potter's label) and Klanggalerie. Only available at the Vienna live shows on 6 & 7 May 2005 at The Anatomical Museum / Narrenturm, Vienna (Austria). Each concert was limited to 50 seats.NURSE WITH WOUND are Steve Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron and Diana Rogerson.http://rapidshare.com/files/90886485/nww__sickness-abounds.blogspot.com.rar

2008-11-18

"Tous les chemins passent par Othon" ("All the roads pass by Othon") is a movie directed by la galerie du cartable (Fabrice Cotinat, David Legrand, Henrique Martins-Duarte). It's a new version of "Les Yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer, ou Peut-être qu'un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour" (Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn), a 1969 movie by french radical directors Straub et Huillet.

"Tous les chemins passent par Othon" is like a "dogma 95" version of the original film, shoot from 2000 to 2003, with non-professionals actors, in various french cities where la galerie du cartable was invited to perform.It will be spread during the exhibition "Le Couloir des Miroirs/ The Corridors of Mirrors" in Limoges, at the FRAC Limousin (Contemporary Art Foundation) every two days, from November 21st till March 7th.

2008-11-07

Joseph Morder as Marguerite DurasLa galerie du cartable made another trailer for the movie they directed, "a proclamation for a burlesque transvestism of the independant cinema", as they said. About 2 minutes :

La Galerie du cartable (the satchel gallery) wrote and directed since 2004 a series of short movies entitled "Shadows's Dialogues" which dead or fictitious figures of art or culture are in action. A different a different processing is given to each episode. The Shadows's dialogue No. 9 about fluxus artist Robert Filiou in Laos (shooting pictures here) will be published in DVD in 2009, by the association Bandits-Mages, with bonus trailers of the others dialogues. Below trailers of two shadows's dialogues: n°6 : A lesson in painting by Kokoschka to Günter Brus, co-produced by the gallery Octave Cowbelln°7 : Roland Barthes / Marguerite Duras, starring independant film-maker Joseph Morder as Marguerite Duras.

My favorite cover ever !Pipilotti Rist - I'm a victim of this song (1995)Les Reines prochaines are a female band from Switzerland. The artist Pipilotti Rist played with them from 1988 to 1995 and made this video for the song called "Opfer dieses Liedes", covering Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game".More info about Pipilotti Rist : pipilottirist.netYou can download a whole LP here : alicerabbit.blogspot.com/2008/12/or heard some songs and get some info about the band in the magnificent WFMU's Beware of the Blog.Dont' forget to thank ! Vergessen nicht zu danken !

2008-10-19

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Michel Aubry is a french artist and musicologist whose work is a reappropriation of early XX century modernisms through the musical tradition of Sardinian launeddas. He frequently works with la galerie du cartable, especially in films or costumes making.

>> UPDATE<<Organized by The Brain, the concert should have happened in a in a supposedly underground place of Nantes. So, it looked like an underground place, full of ex-fine arts students and supposed fashionistas, in the new city's nightlife area.We are waiting for Kubin, The Brain is mixing some lo-fi electronics from 10 pm to midnight...but Kubin is still drinking beers with people of the audience and a new DJ come to mixing... I am not there for dancing or hearing another crap set, so I left. Very disappointing.

Both of these Sonic Youth Recordings series albums were released in 2008.Thanks to the now defunct unblogandalou.blogspot.comSYR7: J'Accuse Ted Hughes/Agnès B. Musique is the seventh release in American group Sonic Youth's SYR series (40 min). LINK - MEDIAFIRESYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth is an album by Sonic Youth with Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow. It is the eighth release in the SYR series. The album title is in Danish and means "Other sides of Sonic Youth".This is taken from a live show which features full band improv. Players leave the stage one at a time until Merzbow is left. Then he makes some noises. Then he leaves.Andre Sider af Sonic Youth – 57:32 (MediaF)

The post-industrial city of Saint-Nazaire, near Nantes, well-known for his ship-building port and his former german submarine base, hosted last summer the exhibition called The SONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX dedicated to the connexions between Sonic Youth and various visual artists, designers and musicians (Vito Acconci, Dan Graham, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, John Miller, Christian Marclay, Tony Oursler, Richard Kern, Patti Smith, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Glenn Branca, Mike Kelley, Raymond Pettibon, Cameron Jamie, Tacita Dean and Michael Morley, among others...)At the opening, we could see the four members of SN and some Sunburned's freaks among the visitors. I don't like the openings, but some friends told me SY would play a show there to mark the event with Sunburned Hand of The Man. So, with some friends and a little excitement, here I am... No pictures, no vids, no tape recordings... It was the most powerfull concert I see, better than the Whitehouse one, and, maybe, than the TG one ! The best show of the year !First, Moore, Gordon and SHOTM's drummer played together, then, Gordon left and one after another the members of SHOTM came to stage, followed by Ranaldo and Malcolm Morley... Electricity, energy, noise and tension rose to a deafening din, a chamanic trance and a final guitar battle. Absolutely astonishing.

The exhibit is now held at Museion, Bolzano from October 11th 2008 to January 4th , and will also go to Dusseldorf, Germany (1/31-4/26/09), Malm, Sweden (5/29-9/20/09).

2008-09-07

I'm now in my new flat with my girlfriend ! It's nice but I'm very busy and I'll have my new internet connexion only at the end of this month, maybe...So be patient and hope to come back as soon as possible !FAUST/NURSE WITH WOUND - DISCONNECTED (MegaUpload)

2008-06-12

TG played a new version of "Second Annual Report", 30 years after the original release. We could see the "After Cease to exist" movie (very creepy, some men of the audience fall down) and the band came back to stage to played a technoid version of "Zyklon B Zombie". A must ! One of my favourite lives ever !Anyone can tell me what is the thing Sleazy played with ?

2008-06-10

In the park (of La Villette), and not in the dark, the pretty Ruth Radelet sung all he hits of the band, totally extinguished. It was so excitiiiiiiing ! The drummer was hided in a corner of the stage, Johnny Jewel was brilliant and the guitarist tried to play a rock gig with the stamina of a tuna... Good sound, good vibes and she's so cuuuuuuuute !